LABOUR leadership longshot Liz Kendall made a pitch to the left of the party today exclusively in the Morning Star, presenting herself as the heir to Clement Attlee rather than Tony Blair.

Ms Kendall condemned the Tories’ “ideological crusade” against public services and “undemocratic assault” on trade unions.

But in an implicit criticism of left-wing rival Jeremy Corbyn, she declared that “principle and protest without electoral success” is “futile.”